General Information
Time of Start	Anytime
Language	English preferred
Period	Bachelor Thesis: 12 weeks; Master thesis: 20 weeks
Application	Please send an E-Mail with your preferred topic to the mentioned supervisor. Please add in any case your CV and up to date grade sheet from FlexNow (simple printout) in order to find a suitable topic that matches your area of interest.
Own Suggestions	You can also send your own suggestions to a suitable supervisor from our team.
Contact for General Questions	Kristin Masuch

State-of-the-Art and Best Practices in the Development of Health Information Systems
Description	Details
Method	Structured Literature review
Contact	Gilbert Hövel

Do you ever come out of the basement?“ Qualitative Analysis of User-Involvement in the Development of Health Information Systems
Description	Details
Method	Expert interviews & Interview analyzation methods
Contact	Gilbert Hövel

People are not the same: Examining human-centered IT security interventions beyond their average impact
Method	Experiment and quantile regressions
Contact	Prof. Dr. Simon Trang

Suggestions from Dr. Ilja Nastjuk
Research Areas	IT security and impacts on human psychology Technostress in the context of in-vehicle information systems/dating portals/further areas The dark side of digitalization User acceptance of technologies
Application	Please send me your CV and up to date grade sheet from FlexNow (simple printout) in order to find a suitable topic that matches your area of interest.
Contact	Dr. Ilja Nastjuk

Development and evaluation of employee-centric IT security competence profiles
Description	Details
Method	Design Science, i.e. develop and evaluate security competence facets and roles
Contact	Kristin Masuch

Development and evaluation of IT security competence measurement instrument
Description	Details
Method	Scale developement (includes development of tests and quantitative empirical evaluation)
Contact	Kristin Masuch

The impact of data breaches on market value: A contingency perspective
Description	Details
Method	Event Study Methodology (methods will be taught as part of the supervision)
Data	Secondary data collection (commercial and open databases)
Contact	Kristin Masuch

Evaluation of the use of cyber insurances in SMEs
Method	Literature Review, Expert Interviews
Contact	Florian Schütz